Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1922 — Page 1

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DETAILS LACK MOTH'S STB ff DUAL MURDER Authorities Puzzled by Lack of Connecting Evidence in Hall-Mills Case. GIRL PROVES HER LOYALTY Prisoner Benefits by Version of Principal Witness to Bodies’ Finding.

Schneider By Vnited Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.. Oct. 10. —Raymond Schneider, accuser of Clifford Hayes as the murderer of Dr. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, today was shown by testimony furnished the prosecutors to have: 1. Threatened to murder the father of Pearl Bahmer, girl for whose sake Hayes shot the couple on Sept. 14. 2. Repeatedly threatened to shoot his own wife. 2. Been responsible for the attempted suicide of the Bahmer girl in the Haritan Canal two months ago.

By United Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ Oct. 10. —The “confession” of Ray Schneider that his pal. Clifford Hayes, killed the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. James Mills, in their trystlng . place under a crabapple tree, was plumbed to its depths by authorities today. Believing that Schneider’s story is full of holes, authorities took the boy, who is held as a maerial witness in Somerville jail, through the third degree. Schneider charged that Hayes fired four shots into the bodies of two dark figures on the Phillips farm, believing the figures to be those of Pearl Bahmer, 15, his “girl,” and her father. Nicholas Bahmer. Hayes Protests Innocence Hayes, held on charges of firstdegreo murder, protested his innocence. ‘Say,” he told the interviewers at the jail, "If I killed them do you think I would have stuck around New Brunswick all this time?” Prosecutors Beekman and Strickler refused to divulge the contents of the 800-ward statement that Schneider is alleged to have signed after he was .grilled for twenty-four hours. | Questions Not Answered r The authorities also refused to state whether this “confession” had answered the question of how the throat of Mrs. Mills had been cut and how love letters came to be strewn around the scene of the crime. Neither was it divulged how the bodies came to be laid out as if by some acquaintance’s hand. Pearl Bahmer, the 15-year-old girl with brown eyes and bobbed hair who has gone through experiences that not many school girls her age have encountered, came to the defense of Hayes. “ClifT didn't do it," she said. Reported F*..ding Bodies. It was Pearl and Schneider who reported to the police that the bodies of the millionaire pastor of the- Church of St. John the Evangelist and his choir leader were under the tree on the Phillips farm. “On the morning of Saturday, Sept. 16,” the girl said, “Ray and I met to take a walk. I told him I wanted to go in the direction of De Russy Lane. He said he didn't want to go that way, but I finally coaxed him to do it. “He Appeared Nervous” “We turned off on the Phillips farm and noticed two persons lying under the tree. He appeared nervous when I said, ‘Let's go look at them; It’s funny they don't move.’ “’I don't want to go over there,’ he said, but finally consented. “There we discovered the bodies of kßev. Hall and Mrs. Mills. I know Fthe minister had his watch with him then. “He only went to a farmhouse to phone the police after I had coaxed him.” BARS MUST CLOSE Chairman Lasker of Shipping Board Issues Orders to Owners. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Private operators of Shipping Board vessels Monday were formally notified by Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Eoard that saloons and transportation of liquor on Shipping Board vessels under their direction must stop. Lasker ordered the operators to instruct their vessels now- at seat to close their bars immediately. : — TAKES LYE POISONING Peter Hoffman Removed to City Hospital in Serious Condition. Peter Hoffman, 61, of 809 W. New Tork St., was in a serious condition at ! the city hospital today from taking j lye poisoning. Police who investigated j could find no reason for the act. THE WEATHER ’ Rain has occurred from the Gulf i States to New England with higher ; from the Great Lakes to the middle Atlantic Coast. Frost occurred last night in areas as far South as Arkansas and northern Texas. Maximum temperatures this morning was 14 degrees at Norfolk, Va., while the minimum was 30 at Bismarck. N. D. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. 5110 a. m 53 7 a. m 52 11 a. m 53 * a. m. 53 12 (noon) 53 8 a. m— ...... 54

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TOM SIMS SAYS: _ You can’t get on your feet again by eSSoSsitting around. Wjjj® When a girl who takes dictation mar■k ries her boss she be* : comes boss and he I takes dictation. SIMS. We can't decide if Will Hays is the Will of the people or the Will of the movie makers. “Gaston Sought”—headline. After you, my dear Gaston. After everybody gets well educated ; there will be nobody left to do our I work for us. You never can understand women. One has had a man arrested for cruelty to a rat. A Boston undertaker has been convicted of selling poison booze and we can prove it. Things are getting brighter. Even the leaves are turning. A lark is the only song bird that sings as it flies. Others, and humans, sing and then fly. Porto Rican girls wants SIOO,OOO because a man hugged her a million times. Dime per hug, wholesale. j Chicago bandits robbed a poker game and the winners lost heavily. Be careful about raising money. A Texas man got ten years for raising dollar bills to ten spots. When a man tells a girl why his wife doesn’t understand him it usually ! is because his wife does. Pershing will write his book on Buzzards Bay Island, but we like hint and refuse to comment. SCHOOL PATROAIS PLAN DESCENT ON BDARDTONIGHT Demand Will Be Made That New Shortridge High School Building Be Started. Alumni and friends of Shortridge High School will descend upon the school board in force tonight and demand that steps be taken toward the erection of anew Shortridge at Pennsylvania and Thirty-Fourth Sts. Housing conditions at Shortridge have become almost intolerable, friends of the school declare. The old school board, which went out of office Jan. 1, planned to begin construction of the first unit of the new high school this year, but the j present board has taken no definite 1 steps toward inaugurating a building program either for grade or high schools during the more than nine i months It has been in office. It Is understood that in the j delegation will be a number of heavy ! taxpayers who will tell the board j : that they believe Indianaiiolisl citizens are •willing to bear a heavier i school levy in order to remedy crowded conditions now existing. The Shortridge delegation will not be the only one on hand, as a number of others that made fruitless ' trips' to the school board offices last \ Friday night, when the meeting of j the committee on buildings and j grounds was called off without notice to the public, will be back | again. They will present demands for new i grade school buildings to do away I with the portable and temporary buildings in which more than 3,000 school children now are housed, it is said. MIFFED! Cupid Decries Tax Wedding rings may be luxuries | I and jazz musical instruments j necessities, as Congress would have i it, but jewelrs don’t see the point. The Indiana Jewelers’ Association has joined in a national campaign for the repeal of the 5 per cent luxury tax put on during the war. “Are cosmetics and jazz instruments from which the tax has been removed, a necessity, and watches a luxury?” asks Ralph Roessler of • Marion, secretary of the association. Carl Walk of Indianapolis, Is second vice president of the association, and George F. Kern, of Indianapolis, is chairman of the legislative committee. Edward O. Little, of Auburn, Is president. COMES BACK SHORT i Mrs. G. P. Loses Purse and .546; Gets Back Purse and §4.70. Mrs. George P. Lee, 4020 Park Ave.. j lost her purse containing $46, on a ! street car. The purse, she told the police, was later turned in at , the company’s office but it only contained $4.70 when she got it back.

AWARDED lc DAMAGES Theodore Steazel Sues for $15,000

Theodore Stenzel, 2531 Park Ave., was awarded 1 cent in damages and moral vindication by a jury i.l Superior Court, Room 5. today afte\ six hours of delibe.-ation on the e\id/nce in the suit brought by Stenzei agaSist Mr*. Forrest W . Overstreet, 219 1 Creek Blvd., in which Mrs. Overstnjct was charged with persecat'cn a|d slander. The suit asked lor damages. & Evidence in the case disclose 1 tn.tt Menzel bought household goods from . Mrs. Overstreet with an agreement to |

BILLIONS APPEAR IN SURPLUS MONEY ON FEDERAL CALL Oversubscription of Loan Is Reported by Government Seeking Credit. BUSINESS REVIVAL PROVED Dreams of Financial Leaders Surpassed With Enormous Bids for Allotments. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Billions of dollars of surplus investment money in the United States, together with an unprecedented business revival, were disclosed today as the result of the Government’s call for a thirty-four-year loan of a half-billion dollars at per cent. Over subscription of the loan, asked for refunding of part of the national debt, by $1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 was assured today as application for hundreds of millions rolled into the New York field district banks from coffers of “American business.” The quota was over subscribed in a few hours. Much Available MoneySecretary Mellon’s call for the loan has disclosed a supply of available money in the United States exceeding “even the dreams of financial leaders," it was disclosed at the Federal Reserve Bank here. A few hours after he project was made public, and before institutions in ! the rest of the country could get their telegraphic applications filed, on<New Y'ork bank had asked for half the amount, another bank asked for I $55,000,000 and combinations of others requested amounts ranging from hundreds of thousands to $200,000,000. Master Stroke by Mellon Promotion of the loan at this time •was a master stroke by Secretary Mellon of the Treasury, all bankers pointed out. Banks. corporations and individuals who have been “holding back” money to see which way the vane of business would point, regard indications ns favorable. Significant of the money supply was the favorableness with which bankers regarded the terms of the lean. In “inflated times" the Interest, on the basis of time, would have been regarded in many quar- | ters as low. DIPLOMATS MAT DE DENIED BOOZE Status of Foreign Privilege in National Capital Made Doubtful by Ruling. Up United Prc** WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Importa-i tion of liquor by foreign diplomats sta- j tioned here, hitherto freely permitted, j may yet be banned by the American Government as a result of the Daugherty ruling, it was authoritatively learned here today. The statue of the diplomatic privilege which has enabled foreign envoys to dispense a moist hospitality to official Washington since July, 1919, Is admittedly shrouded In uncertainty. Inquiry at the State Department today elicited denials that the department had ruled the privilege unaf fected by the Daugherty ban. as reported. On the contrary, it was stated, the attorney general’s decision has raised grave .doubts as to the legality of its continuance. KLAN IS EXPANDING t Hall of 15,000 Seats Rented for Convention Purposes. By United News KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 10.—The Ku-Klux Klan has grown so large here only Convention Hall, with a seating capacity of 15,000, is large enough to hold the full membership of the organization in session. The hall has been leased for a meeting Tuesday night. The rental lease was made out to "The National Business Men’s Associations.” AUTO HITS TAXI Dr. E. W. Chittenden of Anderson Arrested—Woman Hurt. Dr. E. W. Chittenden. Anderson, Ind., was under arrest today on a charge of assault and batery and improper driving after a car he was driving crashed into a taxicab driven by Leonard Canary at Tenth and Meridian St. Mrs. W. B. Church. 62. St. Joseph, Mich., a passenger in the taxi, was cut about the head and body.

[ pay J 175 upon delivery. The goods were delivered and the check for $175 paid, but an asbestos cover for the dining room table was missing. Arguments which ensued regarding the missing silence cloth lei to police court proceedings, which were dismissed when Stenzel returned the household goods. Remarks which Mrs. Overstreet made, evidence showed, led to the filing of the damage suit. The transaction took place in June of 1921 and the suit was filed on July 14, 1921.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 10, 1922

DARKNESS! Lights Ablaze Indianapolis and vicinity were plunged into darkness at noon today by a weather phenomenon, the like of which has not been known since the days of the flood in 1913. Street cars were lighted and headlights of automobiles and motorcycles that were not parked at the curb were ablaze. Display windows of department stores were flooded with- light and office buildings gave the appearance of scenic postcards sold to visitors, showing the city by night. The darkness lasted for more than an hour and scurrying pedestrians, with umbrellas aloft to protect them | fi-cm the drizzling rain, were seen to bump into each other in the scramble through the semi-darkness. lIRRIIIER WILL DETERMINE NEAREIST ISSUE Reply From Mustapha Kemal Awaited by Allied Agents at Mudania Parley. By United Press MUDANIA, Oct. 10.—Peace or war in the Near East was put up to the Angora government today, while Great Britain quietly sifted more troops into strategic positions in I I preparation for any eventuality. ! Ismet Pasha, Kemalist representative at the conference here, was pre sented by General Harrington with | allied proposals for evacuation of Thrace, on condition the Turks did not further violate the neutral zones. The Ottoman delegate forwarded these jto Angora, promising a reply from Mustapha Hemal's government by this afternoon. Limitations of a permanent neutral zone around the straits and a number of Turkish gendarmerie which Is to lie permitted in Thrace were also mentioned in the allied note. The British have added to their fortifications of a strong line east of Scutari. The Mudania conference Is temi>orarily adjourned. Allied representatives forced this star? of affairs pending the Turk response.

ROLLER SKATES SPORTING EDDDS Judge Anderson Rules That They Are Not Toys and Are Taxable. Roller skates are sporting goods, and not toys, Judge Albert B. Anderson ruled in Federal Court today. His decision overruled the opinions of a number of leading experts, who testified when the case was heard orig inally several months ago. Tho effect of the decision will be to give tho Government $59,000 of tho assets of the Liberty Pressed Metal Company of Kokomo, which went into bankruptcy in tho spring. Sporting goods are subject to a tax. while toys are not. William P. Kappes, referee in bankruptcy, held in favor of the sporting goods theory, and the case was carried to Judge Anderson by creditors of the bankrupt concern. TWO MEN ARRESTED Police Take Man of Many Aliases and Companion Into Custody. Two men were arrested late last night and are held under $5,000 bonds. Ruben Wright, alias Rice, alias Price. 1024 E. Market st.. Is charged with laing a fugitive from justice. George .Shipman of the same address was held under a charge of vagrancy. Wright, tho police any. escaped irom the Indiana State Farm last May. TURKEY RUSH SEEN Big Parking House Asks- Longer Hours for Fowl Pickers. By United News TOPEKA, Kas., Oct. 10.—A big Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey buying rush is anticipated by a big packing company at Topeka, Kas. Tho. company applied to the Kansas Industrial Court for permission to employ chicken and turkey pickers longer hours that provided | in an order issued by the welfare I division of the Industrial court. | NO YEGGS PRESENT Persons living in an apartment over tho Eclipse Mercantile Furniture Company's store. 225 N. Delaware St., reported to the police they heard a. “clicking” as if someone was opening the safe in the store down stairs. The emergency squad surrounded the building entered. The police say the noise was caused by the heat being turned on.

Doomed Because stills have been blowing up and starting fires Firo Chief John J. O’Krien told the board of public safety today the fire prevention force ought to be enlarged so the new kind of fire hazard could lie ferreted out. One started a fire t'li College Ave.. and another In West Indianapolis recently, O'Brien paid. “You issue orders that all citizens with stills must keep them out of the downtown district and have them only in fireproof buildings,” directed Mayor Shank.

KIDNAPER SENDS BACK CHILD

Breaks With Soft Drink King^ \ ' •V - *./ MRS. ONEZIMA DE BOUCHELLE.

By United Press ATLANTA, C,a., Oct. 10.—The romance of Asa G. Candler, aged Coca Cola king, came to an abrupt end today. Mrs. Onozima Do Bouchelle, New Orleans beauty, made public a statement asserting that Candler had

REGISTRANTS TB NUMBER 145.000, FESLERPREDICTS Returns From 165 Out of 205 Marion County Precincts Indicate Total. With returns from 165 out of 205 precincts in Marion County showing registration of 117,129 voters, County Auditor Leo K. Fealer predicted the total number of qualified electors will be 145,000. The average registration a precinct on this liases was 7 f W.. Os the 117,129 registrations, 65,441 were of men and 51,688 of women. In 1920 the total county registration was 169,000 and in 1921, which was exclusively of voters within the city, 143,000. ROADS ARE FAIR Williams Returns From Trip With Favorable Rejiort on Highways. John D. Williams, director of the State highway department, has completed a tour of Indiana highways, and reports that they are in fair condition, considering tho prevailing weather conditions. Williams left today for Attica, where ho will look over roads between that city and Chicago.

KIDNAPED PHYLLIS PROSCH Little Phyllis Prosch was kidnaped while on her way to school yesterday afternoon and taken to Lafayette by a man in an automobile. She was released today.

broken his engagement to her on account of certain reports brought to him reflecting on her character. She also said that Candler had refused and was still refusing to furnish her with tho names of the persons accusing her.

LEGEND Another Error By United Xeictt I CHICAGO, Oct. 10.—With nearly j every anniversary of the big Chicago : fire in 1871, the city discovers somei thing new about it. i East year on the fiftieth anniversary |it was proven to the satisfaction of ; many that Mrs. O’Leary’s celebrated cow did not kick over tho lantern that started the fire. The cow story* had boon ona of Chicago’s most famous traditions. This year, as surviving fighters of the big blaze gathered Monday in observance of the accepted date, Capt. Chris Sc him me is of Engine 5 and Mike Ahearn, a 72-year-old reporter, issued a joint statement to the effect that the fire started Oct. 8. 1871. instead of Oct. 9, the day which has always been cole- ] lirated. The error occurred because Oat. 9 was the day most of the damago was done, they claim. APPOINTS RECEIVER Judge Hay Grants Petition Against Parker Tire and Rubber Cos. On petition of the Central Rubber and Supply Company the Bankers Trust Company was appointed receiver for the Parker Tire and Rubber Company by Judge Linn D. Hay of Superior Court, room 2. The concern operates a tire factory at 2C55 Allen Ave. WILL HEAR EVIDENCE Public Service Commissioners to Go Into Telephone Merger, Members of the public service commission will leave Wednesday for Spencer to hear a petition relative to tho merger of the Harrison Township Telephone Company, the Clay City -Mutual Telephone Company and the Farmers’ Independent Mutual Telephone Company. EAGLES HEAR PARRY Speaker Tells of Proposed Legislation for Old-Age Pensions. Tho possibility of establishing national legislation providing that old men who have given the best part of their lives in tho employ of others snail be cared for in their old age was stated by John S. Parry of Kansas City. Mo., in a talk before tho Indianapolis Order of Eagles Monday evening.

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Religious Training Little Frank was trying to teach his dog to stand on its back legs. "Stand up. Gray. Stand up for Jesus,’’ he admonished the pet.—K. K. Seconds Martha went to a friend’s birthday party and when it came time to go home and most of the children had gone Martha kept waiting around. So mother said: "Well, Martha, let’s go home, the party is over.” "Oh, no, it isn’t,” said Martha. “There’s some cake and candy left."— M. S. W. Our language One of the children had been to Sunday school and on her return I asked her what she had learned. "Well,” she said, "they sang the funniest song. It was something about a cross-eyed boar,” (The Cross I Beard—K. K.

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'B-YEAR-OLD GIRL TAKEN IN AUTO TO LAFAYETTE ANO IS KEPT OVERNIGHT Phyllis Prosch- Missing More than TwentyFour Hours, Returns Home on Train and Telephones Her Mother. .SAYS MAN TOOK HER FOR AUTO RIDE Police Start Investigation of Strange Disappearance Case With Hope of Locating Stranger Who Lured Girl Away. - Eight-year-old Phyllis Prosch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Prosch, 1460 Lexington Ave., who disapeared yesterday, was released today by the man who enticed her away from her home. Plivllis, shortly before noon, called her parents by telephone from the Union Station. According to her story, she was on her way to school No, 28, atter leaving her home, when a man, apearing to be about 35 years old and “looking like a farmer,” stopped his automobile at the curb. Phyllis said the man called to her and asked her is she wished to take a ride. She said when she hesitated he said he knew her teacher and that he knew it would be all right for her to go with him. She said she climbed into the automobile and that they drove out in the country. She said they drove most of the afternoon, finally st oping at Lafayette.

HIM TUB TO RIPPLE PROBLEM / New Ordinance Annexing School Property Is Proposed as Solution to Mix-up. I Mayor Shank today moved to I solve Broad Ripple’s public school problem, created when the city council annexed the town and left tho school building stranded high and dry out in Washington township. The township trustee notified | Broad Ripple citizens they will have I to pay SIOO a year for each child who attends the school, since it is in the township outside the city limits. The nearest city public school is at Forty-Sixth St., and Central Ave., almost twenty blocks away. The mayor said he would ask the city council to pass an ordinance annexing the territory in which the school building Is located. RE-ELECTS OFFICERS First Baptist Church Celebrates End of Centennial Year. The close of the centennial year of | the First Baptist Church, of which | Dr. Frederick E. Taylor is pastor, was observed last night by the reelection of the officers of the church. Those re-elected were: D. G. Phillips, churcli clerk; C. S. Merrick, treasurer; Mrs. C. S. Dearborn, Henry Eitel, Mrs. J. B. McCoy, O. L. Montgomery, J. C. Moore and Albert T. Potter. The annual report shows the church has gained forty-eight new members during the year, making a total membership of 1,844. FORM AVIATION COMPANY Three Greencastle Citizens lo Engage in Transportation Business. The Greencastle Aviation Company today filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of State showing a capital stock of SSOO. The company set out in its papers that freight and passenger transportation would be the chief purpose of the organization. William Wetz and Alva and Kermit Cox. all of Greencastle, are the incorporators and directors of the company.

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HUUI NOME SEEMS TO BE , A PLACE VNWEQE YOU APE ' ALWAYS TOLD TO DO SOMETHING OP NOT TO fDO SOMETH fonn i v IVhat dig your baby ilo that was unusual or intsrestfnit? Writs if on a postcard, slsn your name or initial* and send it t the Baby Mine Editor of the Times,

Forecast Unsettled with probably rain tonight and fair Wednesday.

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Taken to Hotel At Lafayette, according to the child’s story, she was taken to the Lahr House and registered as the man’s sister. She said she did not i know under what name the man registered. | The little girl said she was given a room and she stayed there all night j without being disturbed, j This n.orning. according to the j story, the man took Phyllis and put her on a train, paying her fare to Indianapolis. On the train she met two women who became interested in her because she was traveling alone. To them she told her story and they assisted her in calling her parents. The police, who had been assisting in the search for the child, were immediately notified and they began an investigation to determine the identity of the kidnaper. Phyllis could give only a very vague description of the man. WILL CALL MEETING Mayor to Summon Coal Commission Sometime This Week. The citizens* coal commission will be called into a meeting late this week, Mayor Shank announced today. J. W. Coneys, a Pennsylvania division superintendent, has accepted membership on the commission, he said. Clarence Baker, A. E. Bradshaw j and Lloyd D. Claycombe are other members who will serve. Elmer E. Stout, vice president of the Fletcher American National Bank was named, but will be out of the city until late this month. The mayor said someone might be named to replace Stout. The commission will assist Federal and State authorities in regulation of local distribution of coal in case of shortage. ENGINEERS BANQUET Indiana Section Plans Big A flair for Friday Night. C. V. Kettering, vice president of the General Motors Corporation, will speak on “Fundamentals of Engineering” at a meeting of the Indiana section of the Society of Automotive Engineers at the Athenaeum Thursday night. The meeting will be proceeded by a dinner. Local officials expect 150 engineers from over the State to attend. All persons interested in automotive engineering are invited. Reservations for the dinner may be made through B. F. Kelley, Drexel 5800.

Zoology A little chap came home looking ! rather puzzled. His father asked him j what he was thinking about. "Why, | daddy," he said, "I saw a big dog walking down the street today with a I lot of little dogs. At least I think It ! was a dog. It looked like a dos, but lit had milkers.” —K. K. • Speechless Francis became disgusted with the boy next door and turned andi left him without a word. When being commended for holding his temper he deplied: “Oh, that wasn’t it. I would have told him what I thought of him if I’d bfen able to think of enough to say.”—M. L. E. Ruse Fails Nancy, who is just three, was not allowed much candy, so her mother in speaking of it always spelled the word out. Nancy surprised her one day by asking: "Mother, may I have soma c-a-n-d-y?”—K. K,